Anecdote Of The Week: Do You Use Your Resources To Your Advantage?

"Once there was a Miser who sold all his possessions and, with the money, bought a great lump of gold. Once a day thereafter the Miser went to the garden, dug up his gold, and fondled it lovingly.

One of the Miser's workmen wondered why his master spent so much time in the garden. One day he hid behind a tree and soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure.

That night, when the Miser was fast asleep, the workman crept into the garden and stole the lump of gold.

When the Miser found that his gold was gone, he tore his hair and cried aloud in despair. A neighbor came running to see what was the matter, and the grief-stricken Miser told her what had happened.

Then the neighbor said, 'Pray stop your weeping. Go and find a stone. Place the stone in the hole and imagine that it is your lump of gold. The stone will serve your purpose, for you never meant to use the gold anyway. To a miser, what he has is of no more use than what he has not.'" -From, "Aesop's Fables"